detrui
See also: dế trũi
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French détruire, ultimately from Latin dēstruō (“I destroy, demolish, ruin”). Compare Italian distruggere, Portuguese and Spanish destruir, German destruieren, English destroy, Romanian distruge.
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
detrui (present detruas, past detruis, future detruos, conditional detruus, volitive detruu)
- (transitive) to destroy
- 1999, Trans. Edwin Grobe, Mark Twain: Tri Noveloj[1]:
- Vi metu monon en la manojn de tia viro nur se vi deziras lin detrui, tio estas fakto.
- You put money in the hands of that type of man only if you want to destroy him, that is a fact.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of detrui
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Derived terms edit
- amasdetrua armilo (“weapon of mass destruction”)
- detrua (“destructive”)
- detruenda (“which must be destroyed”, adjective)
- detruiĝi (“to be destroyed”)